Sad Cypress

Sad Cypress
Agatha Christie

An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will…Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison.Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows…

Sad Cypress

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TO PETER AND PEGGY MCLEOD

Come away, come away, death,

And in sad cypress let me be laid;

Fly away, fly away, breath;

I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

My shroud of white, stuck all with yew

O prepare it;

My part of death no one so true;

Did share it.

Shakespeare.

Contents

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Title Page (#ub6fd43e3-3fa2-5273-80e7-18d6ff8186b8)

Copyright (#u2b67889b-e38b-5ed7-843f-1ea2e38d5b50)

Dedication (#u730f19d4-e396-5114-bf57-f6c68f18f20d)

PROLOGUE (#uc5041515-1223-5985-8a53-7503725429d1)

PART I (#u61bb1537-a9bf-5490-8ce6-ed46b7e45a7e)

CHAPTER 1 (#u139ec93a-635f-5ae2-a61c-1e396eae848e)

CHAPTER 2 (#u9a50b821-1d33-56b4-b4d6-065d4152f090)

CHAPTER 3 (#uda730528-7b36-5002-895f-4c0aaaf7ca87)

CHAPTER 4 (#udcf19ab0-30d7-5acb-a751-5d092b0adf14)

CHAPTER 5 (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 6 (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 7 (#litres_trial_promo)

PART II (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 1 (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 2 (#litres_trial_promo)